Creating a training tool that can be used by educators working with at-risk groups, like immigrants and unemployed youngsters is the goal of the Creative Learning Community (CLC), a project started on March 15 in Palermo. The basic idea of CLC is to create a learning space where creative thinking and all its related tools, can be used to acquire competences in the entrepreneurial field.
The project will last for two years and it is funded by the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) and especially by the Development of Innovation multilateral project, so its goal is to create a totally new tool for the Training and Professional Education area. For the accomplishment of the project CESIE is collaborating with Austrian, English, Maltese and Polish associations and enterprises.
Teachers, trainers, students, immigrants, unemployed, youngsters, adults and people who dropped out of school early. Whoever is interested can participate in the realization and dissemination of “creative” training tools, so they can also be introduced to a new way of thinking and interacting with people as well as facing problems and taking another’s point of view. In the same time the project gives a real answer to the local, regional or national demands, especially the ones concerning unemployment, delinquency and immigration.
CESIE considers the project as a significant step forward in the process of involvement for disadvantaged people, associations and institutions, concerning the creative thinking and educational area. Whoever might be interested to participate in the Creative Learning Communities project, or simply wants more information about it, can contact Silvia Ciaperoni (silvia.ciaperoni@cesie.org).
